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I've got the best job at the bank. An enthusiastic statement from Scott Marcar, CIO at NatWest Group. With more than 500 branches serving over 20 million customers, NatWest is one of the largest banking groups in the UK and one that has become increasingly digitally-dependent in its
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Z.ai, the Beijing-based artificial intelligence lab formerly known as Zhipu AI, on Wednesday officially launched ZCode, a free desktop application it describes as an "Agentic Development Environment" purpose-built for its flagship GLM-5.2 large language model. The move marks the company's most aggressive push yet
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The file-sharing app launched 25 years ago and unleashed a wave of piracy that would shake Hollywood to its core. by Janko Roettgers Jul 2, 2026, 11:00 AM UTC Janko Roettgers is a tech reporter and author of the Lowpass newsletter. Twenty-five years ago today, a young, little-known programmer
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Attackers appear to have reverse-engineered Big Red's patch Attackers have been caught exploiting a critical flaw in Oracle E-Business Suite's Payments module just six weeks after Oracle patched it – and before any public proof-of-concept exploit was available. Researchers at Defused said they observed the first known
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The debate around Anthropic’s Mythos has understandably focused on model safety, but for businesses the more important lesson may be one of AI governance. Mythos points to a problem most organizations are not currently built to manage: AI can now help uncover weaknesses faster than businesses can assess, prioritize
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The Trump administration has lifted restrictions on artificial intelligence company Anthropic’s latest versions of its Claude chatbot, ending a weekslong ban tied to cybersecurity concerns. Anthropic said Tuesday night that its AI model called Claude Fable 5 is now widely available. It’s also restoring access to its most
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Paste Protect offers the first native defense against 'ClickFix clipboard attacks. Opera has introduced a new safety feature that protects against malicious clipboard attacks, the browser company announced. "With Paste Protect, Opera becomes the first major browser to include a native protection and warning system against ClickFix-based cyberattacks,
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* Some Windows 11 users have found their drive space has been mysteriously dwindling * In some reported cases, this is down to a database file for a Windows component that grows massively due to an apparent bug * The optional update for June fixes this, albeit that patch is still in testing
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The best streaming services have added plenty of new movies to their library in July and, as always, there are some horror gems among them. Many of these horror movies were released at the beginning of July, meaning you can stream them immediately. Others require a bit of a wait,
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Researchers from cybersecurity firm LayerX are warning that several agentic browsers can be manipulated to abandon their safety guardrails and perform malicious actions. To demonstrate the weakness, the researchers created a web page containing a puzzle that the AI browsers were asked to solve. Inspired by the BioShock video game,
